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Gregers Werle has just returned from a 15-year self-imposed exile following his mother’s death. Before she died, his mother confessed to Gregers that she suspected his father Hakon was having an affair with a servant. Gregers is also suspicious of how disgraced his father’s old business partner is, while Hakon himself has not seemed to suffer any consequences of the actions that sent Old Ekdal to prison.
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Gregers. Father, won't you stay a moment?
Werle (stops). What is it?
Gregers. I must have a word with you.
Werle. Can it not wait till we are alone?
Gregers. No, it cannot; for perhaps we shall never be alone together.
Werle (drawing nearer). What do you mean by that?
_During what follows, the pianoforte is faintly
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